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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6573382" data-attributes="member: 6779310">[MENTION=2011]KarinsDad[/MENTION]:English lesson for you: the word "may" is an axiomatic indicator of something being non-requisite, or in other words, optional. "Shall", "will" or "must" are the indicators of obligatory action. "May not" is an exclusion prohibition. The quoth bit in the PHB is an explicit option, because it uses the word "may". "Can"  also indicates non-requisite action, with "should" being non-requisite but recommended.Rules lesson for you: Adventurer's League play still doesn't use 98% of the DMG (by page count), allowing explicitly the encounter balance (81-84, but which, aside from 1 paragraph, are replicated in the DMBR) and the grid rules. (249-251), plus those sections duplicated in the DM's Basic Rules (which are much of chapter 8 anyway). The adventures obviously use the section on social interaction (244-245), which provides a good guideline for social checks, and which En2<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />otA explicitly calls out as allowed.So, since the DMG isn't actually used, it's CLEARLY optional. And the DMG is explicitly noted as optional in the DDALPG_EEv1.pdf. (p. 10)The PHB is not required for AL play - but it's not optional in the same sense as the DMG, either. A player with a PHB-only class or spell should expect to bring their PHB to AL games. The DM isn't allowed to disallow it, but the PHB isn't required for play. (All the actual non-class  rules and most of the spells are in the PBR).</blockquote>

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